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Question: What is the best financial advice someone has ever given you?

Answer from Asim Qureshi
The wealthiest person I know well, who is possibly a billionaire, gave me some advice about a decade ago.

He said, “Asim beta [which means son in Urdu], it doesn’t matter wha
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Question: Was medieval life awful?

Answer from Ken Eckert
No. Medieval life was boring.

If you have grandparents or relatives who own a farm, visit them. See how time seems to slow down to the pace of animal care, weather patterns,
Read More: https://www.quora.com/Was-medieval-life-awful#ans40056106
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Question: In terms of popularity, what are the greatest bands of all time?

Answer from David Stewart
Here's a staggering statistic for you.

Who sold the most albums in the decade 2000-2009?

The answer is Eminem with 32 million albums sold.

Who came in at number 2?

The an
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Question: What is the most misunderstood literary novel?

Answer from Matthew Bates
Lolita by Nabokov

Ask anyone what they think of the novel “Lolita”, and, assuming they’ve heard of it, they’ll think it’s about a creep who runs away with an underage girl.


Read More: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-misunderstood-literary-novel#ans44303650
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Question: How does being one of the richest people in the world today compare to being one of the richest people in the world 100 years ago? 500 years ago? 1000?

Answer from Gordon Miller
Out of the top 10 richest people in history here is the breakdown

Today:
#9 Bill Gates

100 Years Ago:
#7 John D. Rockefeller
#6 Andrew Carnegie
#5 Joseph Stalin

500-1,000 Y
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Question: Why can’t objects re-enter Earth very slowly?

Answer from Steve Baker
When the “Spaceship One” craft (the first privately owned spacecraft) went into space - it returned rather slowly and gently…no problem.

The reason it can do that is that it’
Read More: https://www.quora.com/Why-can’t-objects-re-enter-Earth-very-slowly#ans43612128
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Question: What do I need to know when travelling to Thailand?

Answer from Marita Rotella
If you go by boat to the “Floating Market” do not ever purchase a bowl of noodle soup from a food vendor on a floating kitchen boat. The soup comes directly out of the heavily
Read More: https://www.quora.com/What-do-I-need-to-know-when-travelling-to-Thailand#ans44268776
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Question: What happened to the Royal Family of Ottomans after WW1?

Answer from Christian Nelson
They stayed in Turkey until 1924, trying to disrupt and undermine the independence movement under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal.

After the successful conclusion to the Turk
Read More: https://www.quora.com/What-happened-to-the-Royal-Family-of-Ottomans-after-WW1#ans44023352
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Question: Are professors intimidated by intelligent students?

Answer from Shane Greenstein
Intimidated? Consider this story.

The following story has been circulating for years about Paul Samuelson's dissertation defense at Harvard. Samuelson was supremely self-conf
Read More: https://www.quora.com/Are-professors-intimidated-by-intelligent-students#ans10879385
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Question: What are the most corrupt countries in the world? Why?

Answer from Gordon Miller
Ironically. Almost all of them with the exception of the Scandinavia, Canada, America, Europe and Australia that are the lowest.

Here's How Bad Corruption Is Around The World
Read More: https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-most-corrupt-countries-in-the-world-Why#ans44143460
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